but what happens after they've reached the pageRank publicity? will they just go "hey, we've met our objective, we'd just dump everyone since we couldn't really afford to serve everyone from the start?"
Ah... I still remember all my Buffy fan sites hosted on the late XOOM that died, when the company decided to out on the web-serving, suddenly and without notice.
true. when you have a bunch of people with too much money and no idea how to spend it, they'd obviously give it away to anyone who'd shout "i have a great ends to reach"... (whisper) "but my means is totally secret and not even i know it! muaahhahha!"
I don't believe WikiMedia will ever solve the problem of coding the actual search system. Namely, who'd do it? None of the core developers. In order to be viable, the system would be too complex...
It'd have to solve many of the current probs with the W, for one. Prob's such as accuracy, which apparently, said proposer doesn't believe W should be trusted for. Not to mention filtering for biased-users who'd get all their friends to promote irrelevant attachments to search terms, using the engine as a source of free publicity. (And speaking of "search and the W": the existing state of Wikipedia's current search is just horrendous. As for W's current state on filtering: perfectly good entries get marked for deletion without proper justification, while blatant propaganda goes by unnoticed.)
Moreover, if the system does get implemented -- that's if -- there'd still be at least one or two "incubation years," where users contribute enough to make the search engine useful, i.e., better than PageRank.
Crowdsourcing has its limitations. It takes time for all the people to get there to contribute. And, once they get there, since they're not paid for it, they'd only spend what little free time they have to contribute in-between their 80-hour weeks. Those who are paid for it... the majority of them will probably be paid for spawning biased results. (Imagine companies that spring up claiming they hire thousands to give "good rankings" on Wikisearchia.com.......)
It's a materialistic world, and people are... what they are.
Moreover, doesn't Google already have the ability to make something like this possible, and, in fact, has already implemented part of it? On my Google toolbar, when I type in a common search term, the input text also outputs how many users searched for the same item. It also suggests popular search terms (listed next to the number of searches), as I type...
Well, as always, there will be the real geeks and the wannabe's. BestBuy mostly tailors to the latter kind, who'd blow money like this off just so their snazzy friends would start treating them like the tech messiah they're not.
Moreover, note how the package is named... it's definitely a name that'd reach out to their preferred latter-type marketing audience.
Since you already have access to common (windows) desktop app's such as spreadsheets, word doc's, and even low-time-budget games on Google Personalized Homepage, it appears GoogleOS has already been released. Though its interface is minimal, it's clean and straight-forward... without the hassle of cutesy icons that make you do what you don't want to do.
imho, whoever wrote the blog doesn't know what a real O/S looks like... that, it's not the pretty icons and "windows-gui-like" interface that makes something an o/s, but rather the function.
Whenever an actor goes "Okay, I hack, and poof I'm done!" -- it's really not meant to be an unrealistic portrayal, but, rather an "edited" portrayal -- i.e., the boring stuff between "hack" and "and poof" have been edited out by a well-paid editor. What's wrong with that?
Well... would you rather have a 2-hour extension to the original movie, wherein the actor is portrayed to "realistically" grope her way around the system while the dino-robo's are out loose?
No, I wouldn't want to watch someone debug or "bond" with a difficult system either. I'd rather see the results.
Well, when you have technoilliterate geezers (who long-ago-lost-their-jobs in IT) desperately in need of a few bucks, they'll sign blood oaths that deem sets of totally random questions the holy grail of tech exams.
The secret to figuring out the truth behind all shitty exams: think of who's writing the questions...
Moreover, note that xbox is the only game out there to release a game programming API for the people (XNA). I believe that player-created games will allow xbox to dominate in the same way that people find themselves attracted to player-contributed "societies" like Second Life.
10. your the kind of person who would bribe to get your pointless prosaic hallucinations on slashdot and you're kids will get you'reself kidnapped, as you lose yourself in the metalic conveyor belt at the airport.
will someone show the prof the movie Minority Report? like most cloistered academics, he's probably not seen it, and is completely unaware of how he's fallen from innocent unto gravest evils...
I agree that SL's software is buggy as ___ and that its graphics keep the more aesthetically-elite away -- however, it is (correct me if i'm wrong) the only MMOG out there that provides the user with something closest to a blank slate to start out with.
In SL, you're not given a mission, per se, to have to solve. There are no enemies, other than those you make yourself. Enemies can't kill you in SL unless you're in a zone with HP enabled. You're also not limited with world gravity (not worrying about the limitations of the actual engine itself), and you're not limited to a "theme" (i.e., if creating dark Doom-style crates aren't your thing, you can always create birthday boxes). Gameplay isn't linear, and no one "finishes" SL in X hours -- it just keeps on going and going.
Other than Linden Lab's horrendous business sense that actually renders a draconian reversal of its very core motto, SL really is rather close to its core motto, "your world, your imagination."
Can't wait until those with access to better engines understand the concept that users actually want to play a game that isn't really a game...
It's the year 2040, and there are 2 billion college goons majoring in "Massively Multiuser Interactive Gameplaying (MMIG)." Ever since 2020, NASA has been actively recruiting the top pro-gamers as astronauts -- a new generation of space heroes. MMIG is a hot major, and the industry is totally in need of MMIG players...
In other news, since 2035, the Olympics have become purely virtual. No longer do athletes train their physical bodies, as we've all learned in 2025 that it's definitely mind over body. This proto-android controlled telepathically by a pro-gamer is simultaneously better at and impossible-to-beat-in all Olympic sports. Since then, all athletes (including boxers and sumo wrestlers) have converted to telepathically connecting to FightBots whose HP are directly proportional to the athlete's IQ.
War, also, has become less of a national tragedy. No longer do millions of soldiers dying causelessly. The world now has scrap-metal cemetaries and designated "dead-zones" for the billions of proto-droids whose existence have devolved in the name of human-decreed-entropy. Gamers who control these droids often get pissed their that their console quits working in the middle of a pointless war, and they engage their smaller robots in local brawls and gangwars.
You seem to have missed the point of the "Forever" suffix in DNF. In the ideal world DNF would take forever to develop. So, if everything goes according to plan, DNF would come out the instant time ends, and...
Re:The list is an insult to women
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actually, Shelley invented sci fi as a genre. Frankenstein was way before, basically, everything. not to mention, she'd written a sci fi novel that even modern writers often have difficulty beating...
it's obviously different because it's now a conspiracy between the shelf-life of Memorex vs Ridata vs Lena vs TDK
WHY IS IT THAT 5 CENT DVD'S DON'T LAST FOR MORE THAN A YEAR OR SO?!?!?
The photos stored on dvd's fade like forgotten memories on a dusty shelf...
CSS Book vs Web Tutorials
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I remember purchasing a paper-based AJAX book about a year ago. The book was out of date and had a gazillion typos, such that none of the source provided runs without a bit of discerned editing on the reader's part. (Similar dissatisfaction occurred with other paper-based computer books.) Every time, I found that the web provided better tutorials on the matter.
From the review, I don't see any reason to jump out to purchase the book. Cookbook items are already provided ubiquitously. Even a casual search on google via the general terms "best css tutorial" returns some elegant recipes for free.
Slashdot Mirror
here here!
Ah... I still remember all my Buffy fan sites hosted on the late XOOM that died, when the company decided to out on the web-serving, suddenly and without notice.
true. when you have a bunch of people with too much money and no idea how to spend it, they'd obviously give it away to anyone who'd shout "i have a great ends to reach" ... (whisper) "but my means is totally secret and not even i know it! muaahhahha!"
Searchers are too busy searching to notice in-search ads.
It'd have to solve many of the current probs with the W, for one. Prob's such as accuracy, which apparently, said proposer doesn't believe W should be trusted for. Not to mention filtering for biased-users who'd get all their friends to promote irrelevant attachments to search terms, using the engine as a source of free publicity. (And speaking of "search and the W": the existing state of Wikipedia's current search is just horrendous. As for W's current state on filtering: perfectly good entries get marked for deletion without proper justification, while blatant propaganda goes by unnoticed.)
Moreover, if the system does get implemented -- that's if -- there'd still be at least one or two "incubation years," where users contribute enough to make the search engine useful, i.e., better than PageRank.
Crowdsourcing has its limitations. It takes time for all the people to get there to contribute. And, once they get there, since they're not paid for it, they'd only spend what little free time they have to contribute in-between their 80-hour weeks. Those who are paid for it... the majority of them will probably be paid for spawning biased results. (Imagine companies that spring up claiming they hire thousands to give "good rankings" on Wikisearchia.com.......)
It's a materialistic world, and people are... what they are.
Moreover, doesn't Google already have the ability to make something like this possible, and, in fact, has already implemented part of it? On my Google toolbar, when I type in a common search term, the input text also outputs how many users searched for the same item. It also suggests popular search terms (listed next to the number of searches), as I type...
Moreover, note how the package is named... it's definitely a name that'd reach out to their preferred latter-type marketing audience.
imho, whoever wrote the blog doesn't know what a real O/S looks like... that, it's not the pretty icons and "windows-gui-like" interface that makes something an o/s, but rather the function.
Whenever an actor goes "Okay, I hack, and poof I'm done!" -- it's really not meant to be an unrealistic portrayal, but, rather an "edited" portrayal -- i.e., the boring stuff between "hack" and "and poof" have been edited out by a well-paid editor. What's wrong with that?
No, I wouldn't want to watch someone debug or "bond" with a difficult system either. I'd rather see the results.
haven't they already achieve screens like this, as portrayed in the Fashion shows @ SIGGRAPH?
The secret to figuring out the truth behind all shitty exams: think of who's writing the questions...
Moreover, note that xbox is the only game out there to release a game programming API for the people (XNA) . I believe that player-created games will allow xbox to dominate in the same way that people find themselves attracted to player-contributed "societies" like Second Life.
Does this mean I can get a copy of Mein Kamft, hardbound and set in Comin Sans... with a bunny rabbit cover... in seven minutes?
10. your the kind of person who would bribe to get your pointless prosaic hallucinations on slashdot and you're kids will get you'reself kidnapped, as you lose yourself in the metalic conveyor belt at the airport.
THEY KILLED BEOS!!!
will someone show the prof the movie Minority Report? like most cloistered academics, he's probably not seen it, and is completely unaware of how he's fallen from innocent unto gravest evils...
In SL, you're not given a mission, per se, to have to solve. There are no enemies, other than those you make yourself. Enemies can't kill you in SL unless you're in a zone with HP enabled. You're also not limited with world gravity (not worrying about the limitations of the actual engine itself), and you're not limited to a "theme" (i.e., if creating dark Doom-style crates aren't your thing, you can always create birthday boxes). Gameplay isn't linear, and no one "finishes" SL in X hours -- it just keeps on going and going.
Other than Linden Lab's horrendous business sense that actually renders a draconian reversal of its very core motto, SL really is rather close to its core motto, "your world, your imagination."
Can't wait until those with access to better engines understand the concept that users actually want to play a game that isn't really a game...
In other news, since 2035, the Olympics have become purely virtual. No longer do athletes train their physical bodies, as we've all learned in 2025 that it's definitely mind over body. This proto-android controlled telepathically by a pro-gamer is simultaneously better at and impossible-to-beat-in all Olympic sports. Since then, all athletes (including boxers and sumo wrestlers) have converted to telepathically connecting to FightBots whose HP are directly proportional to the athlete's IQ.
War, also, has become less of a national tragedy. No longer do millions of soldiers dying causelessly. The world now has scrap-metal cemetaries and designated "dead-zones" for the billions of proto-droids whose existence have devolved in the name of human-decreed-entropy. Gamers who control these droids often get pissed their that their console quits working in the middle of a pointless war, and they engage their smaller robots in local brawls and gangwars.
Can you imagine this happening?
You seem to have missed the point of the "Forever" suffix in DNF. In the ideal world DNF would take forever to develop. So, if everything goes according to plan, DNF would come out the instant time ends, and...
actually, Shelley invented sci fi as a genre. Frankenstein was way before, basically, everything. not to mention, she'd written a sci fi novel that even modern writers often have difficulty beating...
I agree!!!
WHY IS IT THAT 5 CENT DVD'S DON'T LAST FOR MORE THAN A YEAR OR SO?!?!?
The photos stored on dvd's fade like forgotten memories on a dusty shelf...
From the review, I don't see any reason to jump out to purchase the book. Cookbook items are already provided ubiquitously. Even a casual search on google via the general terms "best css tutorial" returns some elegant recipes for free.
moreover, are there ethical issues of endangering a poor species of lizards on some tropical island?